Reliability-oriented assessment of a DC/DC converter for photovoltaic applications

PESC Record - IEEE Annual Power Electronics Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1522-1527

  Calleja, Hugo ^a   Chan, Freddy ^a   Uribe, Israel ^a  

^a Cenidet Electrónica   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; POWER ELECTRONICS; RELIABILITY;

HIGH RELIABILITY; INTERLEAVED BOOST CONVERTERS; MEAN TIME BETWEEN FAILURES; PEAK EFFICIENCY; PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS; POWER ELECTRONICS CONVERTERS; STATE OF THE ART;

DC-DC CONVERTERS;

EID: 48349107527     PISSN: 02759306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PESC.2007.4342221     Document Type: Conference Paper

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